It’s been a while since I did a Deep Dive, but I finally got round to do another one, this time the joy of being bored in the 1980’s waiting for a loading screen, disco (sorry ‘jazz-funk‘ *cough*) on the radio, feeling like you are a robot in a robot’s world. You might think boredom is a bad thing, but it can actually be good for you!

So, in this episode, I play a mix of songs from the ironic indie pop of Bis to the exotic Turkish folk of Istanbul Sarkicilari and Istanbul Calgicilari, from the soulful disco of Flaming Ember and glam stomp of Raffaella Carra to the futuristic drum and bass of Cyantific and Culture Shock. And err…disco Sound of Music? Anyone?

You cannot be bored with that! Also it’s the shorted episode I’ve done in years…so bonus!

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Hello and welcome to Radio Clash, this is 393 and it’s the third part of the Deep Dive

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series, it’s Boredom Could Be Good For You.

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Welcome to the third of the Deep Dive podcast, I last did one in June of last year, and

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I optimistically was like 36x, it goes to show you how long ago I planned this podcast.

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You compared to the last one, it’s a fairly downbeat of the Deep Dive series, which was

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384, ‘Tender Silence of the Night’, this one’s a bit more uptempo, and I love that

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Bis’s paeon to sort of, well I think it’s more 90s, but that’s what waiting for the

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loading screen, so of course we had to use the 8-bit intro.

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Thank you to Lee Spoons for that.

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And if you don’t know, the Deep Dive series is a dive into the tracks that are in the

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archives of Radio Clash, the ‘To Play’ folder, which is over 100 gigabytes big, it’s like

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90 odd gigabytes, because I’m doing video editing, I have to put it onto another folder.

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I did a new sort of tranche of these podcasts, as soon as I recorded this one, this is the

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last one of the first three, and I’ve actually got, yeah, it goes up to Deep Dive 11, because

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I went through 7,000 tracks on that folder, going through, well if I ever go “Oh sod

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this, I’m running out of space, delete” which I might do at some point, I’d better make

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sure I’ve got all the good stuff, it’s amazing how long it is to go through all that.

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A lot of the tracks I play on the Deep Dive series are things which kind of never really

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fit anywhere else, but are really good, I wouldn’t play them otherwise, but they don’t

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play well with others.

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So here is something that PDS Mix plays a lot, and it’s one of my favorites as well.

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I’ve talked a fair bit about disco Pink Floyd, I’m surprised, I haven’t played this probably

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because it was earmarked for this podcast so long ago, and this is Rosebud, named after

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the sled, and 1977’s version of Money, yes this is Disco Pink Floyd Money, and that is

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a really good 12″ but yeah, this isn’t the only Disco Pink Floyd, there’s quite a lot

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actually.

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Yes, song of my youth.

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A band of my youth, really.

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RAH Band, Richard A. Hewson, who is Hunger For Your Jungle Love, I own, Going Up, that’s

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from 1983.

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It’s actually quite a rare bit of vinyl now, but you can get arrested lugging that kind

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of music in the mid-80s, heard them via Clouds Across the Mood in ’85, and went, “Ooh!”

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and then got the best of and then delved back and found the crunch and all of those wonderful

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things.

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But for a long time, you can get arrested for disco that cheesy, but I love it.

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I love the synths and the vocodas and the “Sam the Samba Man” and “Hunger for Your

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Jungle Love.”

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And then before that, we had a bit of a borrowing the title of a few Twitch streams, Disco After

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Dark, more chilled disco thing going on, very much late disco, quite a lot of it.

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They probably call themselves Jazz Funk, that’s what RAH Band got branded.

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Jazz Funk, because they didn’t want to use the D word.

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That’s Surface with “Falling in Love” original mix from 1983 again, the surface were a very,

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very good group.

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The mold of Change and a few others, there was quite a few survivors of the Disco Crash

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who kind of went into different directions, but a bit like High Energy or Jazz Funk, Disco

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kept going, it just got rebranded, and it tended to slow down a bit, because things

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were getting 120, 130, unless it was High Energy, but a lot of the Jazz Funk slowed

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it down a little bit and rebranded itself, but it’s Disco, I mean Jazz Plus Funk, what

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is that?

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Disco.

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And then before that we had Flaming Ember from 1969, that’s Robot in a Robot’s World,

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Holland Dozier Holland written, that’s a B-side actually, from the things that’s good to show

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you this whole sort of AI, oh, robots are taking our jobs, it’s not a new thing.

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Then before that from 1980, we have, and this is going to be fun to pronounce, Koroglu

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Daglari (Sark Bülbülü ) by Istanbul Sarkicilari and Istanbul Calgicilari I think, and that’s

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from one of the Disco Fassl, Disco Folk compilations from 1980, well sampled, you’ve

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probably heard that in samples, there was a few people who were sampling that and other

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tracks from the series, sort of Turkish synth Disco, Koroglu Daglari is Koryaglu Mountains,

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which are in the north of Turkey, so I assume it’s a song about that material, or a lot

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of the Disco Fasil stuff was traditional songs, but don’t know the Disco style.

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And at the start of the session we had Rosebud with Money from 1977, and we’re going to play

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a track by Raffaella Carra, more known for Eurovision, set again with love and you know,

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thinks she won Eurovision or something, was higher and Ducky plays Raffaella Carra songs

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quite a lot, including this one, and this is a Italian classic from 1974, this is Rumore.

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That was Sheila, as in Sheila B. Devotion, with Hotel de la Plage,

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Ou et la plume de ma tante, so that’s 1978. A good year for disco, a very good year for disco.

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Then before that we had, not disco, that was Acidulant with Who’s The Gangster In You,

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from 2020’s MetroJax 4.3 via Balkan Vinyl, and we had a bit of a DJ no-no mix into Harmony Cats,

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Yes, Harmony Cats, the Brazilian disco stars, That’s Entertainment.

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Seems to be a medley of film tracks, there’s Cabaret there, but the real reason I play it is

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disco Sound of Music. Seriously, why has no one done that? Why has no one done a whole disco album

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of Sound of Music? Trust me on this, it’ll be brilliant. I might be the only person who buys

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it, but it’ll be brilliant. Then before that we had Eartha Kitt with Bronski Beat, although that’s

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Jon Boy, Jon Boy, that famous Bronski Beat queer Waltons, actually it’s not complete off track,

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because the grandfather and the Waltons was gay anyway. No, Jon Jon, it’s post

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Jimmy Somerville leaving, but yeah, that’s Cha Cha Heels, and that’s a camp Classic. And of course,

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again, I haven’t locked that one up. I think it’s 1988, but I might be wrong. 1989. Then before that

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we had SL2 with DJs Take Control, but that’s the Shadow Child remix from 2018. And then before

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that we had another pronunciation fun. This is Ooh oOh!, channeling Michael Zager Band or stealing Michael Zager Band.

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That’s Istanbul Sarkicilari & Istanbul Calgicilari from 1978. ayva cicek acmis, I think.

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Apologies to anybody Turkish listening to this. I mean, I had to put the titles into a normal

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character set because actually, track to us is like, no, no, it’s all those sort of special

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umlauts and track to us like, no, I’m not even going to read this title. And in the start section

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we had Raffaella Carra with 1974’s Rumore, which sounds really, that sounds disco, doesn’t it?

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It sounds like disco glam. This looks glam in there. It’s a bit rocky music. It’s very cool.

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And yes, we’re going to sort of up the BPMs a bit. And I’m going to play some German bass at

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you. And you have no choice in this. And we have a couple of fairly recent other, I think the cut

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of point for this mix was 2020, whereas the next bunch is going to be pretty much until, you know,

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up to the point I moved all move the tracks over, which I think was a year ago, especially as I

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hang you onto this for, I don’t know, a year and a half. I think it’s been two years, but may as

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well do some a few newer tracks and old tracks. But yeah, that was my cutoff point about a year ago

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for when I moved over to the NAS drive. And this is Cyantific with Wild Child.

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That was Enya. I usually can’t play Enya

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because she’s on a Universal label, but it turns out this first album is called The Celts.

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It was re-released as Enya in 1987, but originally it was in I think ’85 or ’86, a BBC’s The Celts

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soundtrack. And that’s off that, that’s I Want Tomorrow. And it’s all there, isn’t it? Proto,

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Enya, it’s the CLannad, the DX7, the slide guitar isn’t unusual, doing a solo version of Clannad

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stuff, but with more synthesizers. Then before that we had Phainopepla, and it’s the name of a

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bird, I don’t know how to pronounce it. With Atmosphere, Joy Division’s Atmosphere, and that’s from

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2018’s EP The Wolf at My Door. And I know very little about, almost nothing about Phainopepla,

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apart from it being a bird. And it’s a solo project of somebody called Holly Springhorn.

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It says here on Bandcamp, but really brilliant. I was like opera version, very operatic version

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of Joy Division, so I love that greatly. Then before that, that’s Amii Stewart with Don’t Ever

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Let Me Hear You Say Goodbye. Bit of a long title. Really, it’s by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis,

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who played quite a lot of their soundtracks. Italian juicers did a lot of giallo and Italian TV

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soundtracks. And that’s from 1979’s Killer Fish, Aguato Sul Fondo, it says it, in getting into

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that whole barracuda killer fish. You know, there was a whole load of them. I’ve not seen the film,

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but I love that soundtrack. There’s something very interesting about slowing it down. I mean,

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I do like that sort of slow disco, or I don’t even recall it, it’s not really disco at that point,

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but yeah, sort of the slow ballads of disco. There’s Discord in that, obviously because it’s a horror

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film. It sounds quite a spooky thing, so it’s like spooky disco. Yes. And then before that,

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we had a version of what playing in the background. They Long To Be Close To You. In fact, am I?

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Is this actually the same backing? Maybe it is. Which I use as a bed all the time. It’s Aleksander

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Mazur Quartet & Novi Singers. I think it is this version. Why am I using it as a bed again?

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You hear it again. You will hear it to the end of time. And I used to hate jazz, but you know,

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Carpenters, hello. And then before that, we had Velvet Chain, Beat Box (Diversion 2) from 2004’s

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The Abduction of the Art of Noise. It’s a cover of Beatbox 2. Again, I can’t play the originals

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because ZZT is now a part of Universal. Here it is. Am I playing this as a bed? Because this is

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the thing. There were several things in that last mix. Well, actually, our beds on this podcast,

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I don’t feel they get enough love. So hence playing them. And in fact, I suspect being in this mix

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predates them becoming beds on Radio Clash. So they were here first. So even though I’m playing it

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after many times using them in the background. And then before the Velvet Chain, we had Ihsan

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Al Munzer with the The Joy of Lina (Farha) from, well, I don’t know when it originally came out, from

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2015’s Habibi Funk compilation. But that, again, is another one of the beds that I use regularly

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on Radio Clash. But it’s a track I really love. And you can tell from the last three of these

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Arabic funk and disco were playing heavily on my mind. And there was lots of it in the archives.

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Still is a lot of it. It’s interesting how these things go through phases, how I go through phases

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of really getting into, say, Japanese classical covers or Arabic funk or Turkish disco or, you

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know, that kind of thing. And so it’s very telling and go through some go, oh, yeah, this was this.

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That’s when I was doing a lot of Eastern block covers as well. Hence the Novi singers who were

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Polish. And then before the Joy of Lena, we had Nino Nardini with Tropicola from 1972’s Mindbender.

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Nino Nardini, is that Roger Roger? It’s one of those people who has lots of aliases and does a lot

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of library music. Came from the Exotica world and then was doing more electronic stuff later on.

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Pre all of that, I think. And has done quite atonal startling stuff. But also quite like

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their traditional stuff, but very, very lovely. Exotica mixes very well, I think, from Drum and

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Bass. It’s a double time thing. So before that, we had Culture Shock with Renaissance from 2019’s

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RAM Drum and Bass annual 2020. And then before that, we had Cyantific with Wild Child, a cover

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of Just Be Good to Me. And that’s from 2018’s Bloodline. And yeah, I was very much into Culture

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Shock at that time, I remember. Because I do these things so far in the future, and it’ll

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be the same with the new ones, though obviously there will not be all Arabic disco, be of some,

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but it’s not going to be as prevalent. Because as I say, things shift and so the new stuff is

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very much my take on what I’ve got in my archive collection. So it’s kind of several levels. You

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have like, when I choose the tracks, and when I choose them for a podcast, and when sometimes they

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get like some of these, especially the last three of these, a lot of things are things I’ve been

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taking in and out. And they’re just like a little bit too long, a little bit too strange, a little

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bit too, you know, and I don’t like shaving off the edges of the podcast. So hence why sometimes

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I leave them in. And hence why sometimes I do podcasts like this where I’m intentionally not

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shaving off the weird bits, and going more into deeper dive into things. And it’s really interesting

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there’s quite a lot of mashups in the next Deep Dives, a lot more than they have been in the last

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three. So there’s more mashups mixed in. Because as time goes on, it’s stuff which is for a long

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time ago, which is I’ve completely forgotten about. So anyway, I hope you’re all well. I’m okay. I’m

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still trying to recover my knee, which according to a friend of mine, it’s LCL, the muscles that run

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down the back and the thighs, and the back of the knee, or the adductor muscles. I was wondering

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if it was a hamstring. And so I’ve just been doing gentle walking and exercises and trying to get

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that back over the last nearly three weeks, trying to get back to normal, because it was just so

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painful just just to walk to the shops was really painful. And that’s stopped now it’s now it’ll start

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to ache after a while, after a mile or so. So I have to rebuild the strength back up again, and also

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try to build more strength into that left knee, because that left knee is weaker than the right.

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So I think we won’t try and do 15 mile hikes with a heavy rucksack in the future. Not until I’ve

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got better at this. I mean, it’s weird because I regularly do walk or regularly have walked,

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you know, long distances, just not with all of that weight and pushing myself into that sort of

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deadline. So this is crazy. So I’ve been sort of doing the videos for that for the channel.

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And Red Crumplstock did two sets at Crumplstock. I released an album of best mashups of 2023.

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You can see that on radioclash.com. And I didn’t record my sets, although I think they’re still

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probably up for 14 days on I don’t know if they’ll be up by the time I do this, but they were

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basically, you know, just playing my mashups. I’ve done previously there was there wasn’t so

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much new stuff, although there was the Alexa, Alexa Play Pumped Up Kicks thing, which was

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via the PomDeter set. So that led to a mashup, which then became a running thing. Anyway,

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so a player with a track, which is very much of a certain time, I think this is Charlotte

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Gainsbourg, with a Ring And A Ring Of Roses. And I think I put this in because it is startlingly,

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you know, it’s 2017 from her album Rest, which is a really good album, by the way. And it’s about

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various things, but including the death of her half sister was starting when I heard it again,

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I think when I put this mix together, because I put this mix together post all the pandemic.

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And it seems to be basically about something like that about an emergency situation with

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an obviously Ring A Roses about plague. So yeah, it’s some very strange lyrics in this.

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So anyway, I’ll speak to you soon.